unsuspiciousadj.
/ˌʌnsəˈspɪʃəs/, U.S. /ˌənsəˈspɪʃəs/ a. (un- prefix1 1).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > [adjective] > accepting without question
mistrustless1586
unsuspicious1586
unmistrustful1587
unmistrusting1595
unsuspecting1595
unsuspicious1595
suspectless1605
implicit faith1610
distrustless1611
confidenta1616
suspicionlessc1650
undistrustful1654
unspeculative1660
unquestioning1697
unsuspectful1781
pin-faith1800
questionless1821
unspeculating1828
unsceptical1851
round-heeled1920
pistic1923
1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres iv. xxxv. sig. V2 But vnsuspicious magnanimitie Shames such effects of feare, and force to show.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1635 His guide..unsuspitious led him. View more context for this quotation
1727 J. Thomson Britannia 110 Like brothers live, in amity combin'd, And unsuspicious faith.
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. I. iii. 211 The unsuspicious confidence of a man conscious of no crime.
1825 W. Scott Talisman vii, in Tales Crusaders IV. 127 The unsuspicious object of the dark treachery.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. iii. 204 This place all unsuspicious I forsook For Cytheræa's fane.
b. Const. of or with clause.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > [adjective] > accepting without question
mistrustless1586
unsuspicious1586
unmistrustful1587
unmistrusting1595
unsuspecting1595
unsuspicious1595
suspectless1605
implicit faith1610
distrustless1611
confidenta1616
suspicionlessc1650
undistrustful1654
unspeculative1660
unquestioning1697
unsuspectful1781
pin-faith1800
questionless1821
unspeculating1828
unsceptical1851
round-heeled1920
pistic1923
1586 W. Warner Æneidos in Albions Eng. sig. Oiiiiv Her Syster..simply, vnsuspitious of the sequell, prouided..a pyle of dry Faggots.
1796 F. Burney Camilla III. vi. vii. 279 Camilla..unsuspicious of his remarks..was gay.
1796 F. Burney Camilla V. ix. i. 7 Edgar [was] not wholly unsuspicious such an accident might happen.
1825 W. Scott Betrothed iii, in Tales Crusaders I. 36 He was not unsuspicious, though altogether fearless, of the result.
Derivatives
unsuˈspiciously adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > [adverb] > without question
suspectlessly1599
unquestionedly1644
implicitly1650
unsuspectingly1656
unquestioningly1677
unsuspiciouslya1812
questionlessly1865
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > evident certainty > [adverb]
couthlyc900
yareOE
witterlyc1175
apertlyc1315
in (also on) opena1382
apodictically1615
demonstratedly1670
unsuspectedly1748
unsuspiciouslya1812
distinctly1858
a1812 J. S. Buckminster Serm. (1827) 94 Epistles..unsuspiciously authentic.
1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. i. 3 Little lambkin was lying unsuspiciously at the side of the wolf.
unsuˈspiciousness n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > [noun] > state of being convinced
persuasion1534
satisfaction1582
convictment1593
persuadedness1659
self-conviction1673
implicitness1679
conviction1699
unsuspicion1792
unsuspiciousness1809
convincement1825
unsuspectfulness1852
unquestioningness1876
convincedness1882
unsuspectingness1883
1809 M. Edgeworth Manœuvring iv, in Tales Fashionable Life III. 51 A fluent panegyric upon the hereditary unsuspiciousness of his temper.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 267 Her absolute unsuspiciousness, and holy entireness of love.
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